Ugh seriously. I thought D was HUGE all my life and that my boobs weren't nearly big enough for a larger bra, so I went around wearing a 32C. Turns out I'm more like a 30F. x_x I recommend /r/ABraThatFits to everyone!!

40% bra, 15% socks, 35% boob, and 10% optical illusions with the makeup, would be my estimates. Although Optical Illusions gives it the extra umph so I'm not sure if that should be a higher number or not

Makeup makes all the difference! I had to fill out a bustier that was too big for me last year, and I only ended up needing an extra bra (instead of using the 3 bras + socks trick that other people recommended). Contour makeup in general is like night and day lol

I am doing this next cosplay. I will probably do with my Silent Hill nurse. I love my costume but I felt like it lacked enough boob. Also if I ever get around to a League cosplay with my friends I will it then.

Anyone else a little weirded out by this? Maybe I'm more modest than the rest of 2x judging by the positive comments right now, but I'd want to tone down a revealing costume even if that's what the character wore. Strangers don't need to be getting photos of the girls.

I think that's part of the appeal though. Having a costume that mimics a sexy character enough that complete strangers want to take your picture? Seems pretty awesome to me. Not for everyone though, for sure.

There's a lot of praise for non-sexy cosplay characters too! It's more about how well you do it, not how big your boobs are. This was just a fun way to learn how to get ridiculous boobs, you know, in case you want them. :)

Like Burlapin said, creativity goes a long way in cosplay. A lot of people change it all around but do it very skillfully, and that's fine. However, a lot of people want to look exactly like their character and work really hard to do so. And even non-sexy cosplayers get their picture taken. It's honestly not usually about the sex appeal. It's about the art of cosplaying.

I wonder how to do this when you're really busty, like, could just wearing a couple of bras work, I wonder? I can't afford a big enough bra to also pad it, lol. But I need a bra that pushes my boobs together for epic cleavage for a cosplay I'm doing this summer.

I have a cheetah print bra that does that to me. It was like $8 and now every time before my roommate and I go out to the bar, she chants "Cheetah! Cheetah!" I wear it more for our own shits and giggles than for anyone else.

Okay, what the fuck is cos play? I looked it up on Urban Dictionary and I get that it is dressing in a costume, but it always seems to be involving sex. Is this dressing in a costume specifically to have sex in, or is it just dressing in a sexy costume to feel sexy? If it's the latter, where would you wear such a costume?

Cosplay can apply to both the arenas you mentioned. Cosplay at nerdy/geeky conventions typically involves dressing up in the costume of a particular character in a comic/book/show/movie and is not necessarily linked to sex. Cosplay at a kink event typically involves dressing up in a costume, which may be of a particular character, but might also just be a role (maid, schoolgirl, whatever) or genre (steampunk, leather), and typically is associated with sex or sexually fueled roleplaying.

As someone who was exposed to the kink version of cosplay first, I was intensely confused about people referring to cosplay so casually in conversation until I figured out it had a second non-kinky/sexy-times meaning. :)

It's essentially just getting into costume, but it's of a specific character. You can't have a "ghost cosplay" but I suppose you could have a "casper cosplay" or a "nearly headless nick cosplay" (just for an obvious example). It's like Halloween, but often to a much greater extent than the average Halloween costume, and people usually act like the character they're trying to fulfill as well.